Lawrie's Reaching New Heights in this Vintage John Allen Grove Crane! LMM Drives Episode 11. 

30 years ago, a neighbor bought an old insley dragline crane to dig a pond, and i got to help him. it was more fun than anyone should be allowed to have. when we were done, he sold it to someone else to do the same thing. i hope it's still digging ponds for people.

Finally something that he can pick up his locomotive with!!!

I suspect that most plant equipment gets worn-out or smashed to bits long before anyone gets nostalgic. This is an exception which, presumably, landed a second owner where it didn't see much use, or have to travel far. Then to find a third owner, who needed a crane, and didn't need to bother with the LOLER regs, that's really lucky.

Hello from 🇨🇦 my name is Keith and I love your enthusiasm for cranes 🏗 and as a matter of fact I have the kid brother to the crane you have it’s a 1975 TMS 180 Grove! The TMS stands for Truck Mount Superstructure and the 180 stands for 18 ton until my health deteriorated a few years ago I used it to make my living and I probably love mine just as much as you love yours! I really encourage you to to restore it and enjoy it and stay safe! God bless you and your family and may he supply your every need for you Grove crane restoration!😀🏗🪝🇨🇦👍👎👆👇👉👈🤌👌🏗🪝🇨🇦😀

About a half-hour's drive from where I live, there's a beautiful old Bucyrus-Erie power shovel just hanging out, rusting away on some old farmyard, near the road. It's fairly small for a power shovel, but it stands much too tall for storage in a location such as your shed. I always admire it, and dream of how wonderful it would be to own and restore it. Of course, I've never learned how to fix a car, let alone a complicated digging machine that has been sitting out in the elements for goodness knows how long. I think that the length of the chassis and cab is likely somewhere between 10 and 18 feet long, I've never been brave enough to walk onto the property and give it a full investigation.

A rare old beast indeed and cannot wait to see it restored and working again please keep us updated with the restoration if possible. I remember in the early eighties and nineteen nineties a scrap yard and car breakers yard here in South East London that used to run two 1965 Coles Cyclops yard cranes and they used to stack the cars the old school way and if you wanted a part that was not taken off already and on the shelf you climbed up and got it yourself . the breakers yard Thurston Breakers Jerrard Street carried on until 2003 when it closed down due to health and safety new regulations where you were not allowed to stack the cars the way they were doing so and contaminated land basically grease and old oil and old fuel everywhere and the fact there was a railway line in use right next to it so a dispute between Network Rail and the breakers yard owners , now there is stupid modern wooden crud flats where the breakers yard was and where the gypsy site was is now DLR Docklands Light Railway. Used to be four vehicle breakers yards in Lewisham and Deptford South East London, another I remember was one in Deptford South East London by a canal off the thames where you would see big massive tug boats in the quaggy looking down from the what was a commercial breakers yard used to be old Ambulances and Fire Engines and all manor of rare commercial trucks and vans in that yard stacked higgledy piggledy on top of each other my dad wanted a part for a J type Bedford and in the yard was a now very rare ex London Ambulance J type Bedford on top of a now rare Ford Transit mk1 truck. Fond memories of growing up thank you for bringing those memories back to me

Look forward to that road test. Awesome bit of kit

That’s a beauty! Cranes are brilliant, endless fun, you should buy one!

I remember that crane and I’m sure A R Adams were steel erectors from Newport, I worked for a firm called Celtic Cranes back in ‘87 in Taffs Well nr Cardiff we had Grove TMS 180 which were 18t capacity 6x4’s, many moons ago and I’ve been on the railway for 25 years, keep up the great videos guys👍

Wow, what a lovely big toy... My other half is so glad we don't have lots of land, because it would be full of this sort of lovely stuff.

I have seen them in Australia in the 1980s, they were good but a lot of people were glad when the design was improved on.

I love when people restore those machines that others don't care about. This mobile-crane is a true marvel! I hope you do another video with it when they have gotten it fully functional.

Had a 1564 in a boatyard loved it ❤🤠🔧⚓ JB

That one cleaned wheel looks fantastic, I can't imagine how nice the whole thing will look when all the rust is repaired and it's got nice paint!

Bit late commenting, but I noticed at the end of the vid the rear tyres seem to be of different sizes. If this is the case it was probably why there was a bang and you lost drive to an axle, and if you don't change the tyres it might go bang again after you fix it!

That little yelp had me, just ahhuhhh lol priceless by

Your like a 5 year-old with his toys, only you have the real stuff. I'm jealous.

It may not need an MOT to take it out on the road, but the crane part will need to be examined/tested before you can lift anything with it.

i think the 680 in the Leyland engine name is the capacity in cubic inches 680 cubic inches = 11. 1 litres

Nice crane, would be awesome to have a play in it, very big compared to modern 25 roughies

Brilliant little cranes I used to own one, the 680 power plus is 200 hp ... the last of the big blocks before they started turbo charging.. gearbox’s are nice too ... they are very good lifters ... worth restoring and maybe getting a test on it ... ... love it

I love this old stuff. It would be awesome if you could somehow track the progress on this restauration.

Before watching this video. Please do NOT buy a rusty aircraft and then attempt to fly it 😆

Dashboard seems to be off a standard Leyland ergomatic cab lorry of the time. Same with the steering wheel I think. Weren't Coles the first to produce the first telescopic cranes? They later became part of Grove I believe.

It’s a 10 wheel . 2 sets of dually rears = 8 wheels/tires and the 2 in the front. Totaling 10 wheels

Lawrie, the next time you visit the USA, I recommend the city of Scranton in the State of Pennsylvania. It's on the East Coast, so it won't be too expensive to reach, and it will be worth it to visit Steam Town. Bing along an extra pair of underwear though, the size of American steam locomotives might cause need for them, especially my favorite loco the Big Boy; 4-88-4 wheel arrangement, and well over 150 feet in length. The drive wheels are 6 feet tall.

wow a wiper on the roof, HubNut will love that one.....

Excellent! Is there a follow up video?

There is another like this at rush green moters beautiful things

Paint it red and get one that fits your shed. Save our historic plant!

You should make a video about cleaning the thing

I have a 1974 H1864 that needs restoring

My mate Tommy had one. Warwickshire crane hire.

My Leyland Atlantean bus has a 0.680 engine. All it means is 680 cubic inch (11.1 litre).

680 cubic inches is 11.15 litres. could that be where the engine name comes from?

dood you are very funny

well I knew you want to take the cab off the dodge - but this is a bit much, the steering and clocks remind me of a 60-70 bus

Is it my imagination or did you just manage to break a 1970 crane?... I suspect the bang when it was being loaded on the low loader was the through drive in the front drive axle breaking. I understand that was a fairly common occurrence on trucks from this period that had double drive, and it's generally pretty easy to fix. Once you've got the front drive axle out... It's nice to see one of these in preservation. One of our local boat yards had one very similar, though it disappeared when the yard was taken over and refurbished, replaced by a much more modern unit. Hopefully it went on to further life somewhere, but I strongly suspect it probably got scrapped, sadly...

You r one was in John brooms yard

I thank you addicted to rust 😂

Keep us updated on resto

Im restoring a 1564.

smart to remove the windscreen before it fell out and broke . Will look forward to the future installment of its restoration even if only mechanically , Good you have that pressure washer to get rid of all the green and dirt .

Big as a us bigrig the rig part

My God what next a big old mine dump truck

you need a ruston bucyrus rb22

You need to crane take the roof off to get the thing in

Living the dream, your own train and now your own crane!!

I was expecting the camra to be crushed in the last shot.

680 power plus was 150bhp wasn't it?

I think you need to work on your "graceful" dismount. :D

Apparently, Clovis, the only thing bigger than Jupiter is Uranus, and Uranus is never slow to make "air". At least that's what Cletus told me‼️

Of course it will have a slow first gear, makes it easy to get into the exact point its needed to lift something... and for crawling round sites with speed limits ,oh wait its from the 70's, it was common sense not a 5mph speed limit and a escort van on a site. you seem to have as issue with trucks with logically slow crawl gears, you complained about jupiter's low gear in the past, thats so it can haul itself with a full tank up a hill (and do hill starts).

You seen the dodge fire engine on ebay its in good nick needs work but dont look as much as yours

680 = 680 cubic inches (11.1 litres)

Do you know own this crane

Lol hook is 2 tonne more like 50kg

It’s 10 wheels not 6!! It has 6 axles but not wheels

Hey lawrie, I love your content, but for the love of god, give us full color thumbnails. Your thumbnails just sink into the background, in my feed.

Thing does not look awesome!! It looks like shit! Like it should be scrapped for money!!